26. For I expected good, and there came evil; and I waited for light, but there came darkness.
27. My bowels well up, and rest not; days of affliction have confronted me.
28. I go about blackened, but not by the sun; I stand up, I cry in the congregation.
29. I am become a brother to jackals, and a companion of ostriches.
30. My skin is become black and falleth off me, and my bones are parched with heat.
31. My harp also is turned to mourning, and my pipe into the voice of weepers.